Please Discard All Liquids And Bigotry Before Entering Security
A couple are checking in with me at the airport.
Guy: *Handing me their passports.* “Yeah, we’re going to Bali.”
Me: “Oh, how nice!”
The guy then looks up and down the check-in area and leans in to whisper.
Guy: “Yeah, Sydney is getting waaaay too Muslim lately, so we needed a break from it, know what I mean?”
Me: “…riiiight.”
Guy: “We noticed you were the only Australian doing check-ins today, so we let some people go ahead of us so that we could get checked in by you.”
Me: “Well, all of my colleagues are more than capable of—”
Guy: “—yeah, yeah, DEI and all that. You know what we mean.”
I thought being anti-DEI was an American thing, but oh well…
Me: “Anyway, here are your boarding passes. Please enjoy your flight to Bali, Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world!”
Guy: “The what?!”
I’m knowledgeable enough that I know Bali is the only Indonesian province that’s more Hindu than Muslim, but I also know that most racists are stupid by default, so I wasn’t expecting him to know that.
